Where to discuss/plan sessions?
I proposed some sessions which I would like to attend and possibly help to organize. The current session submitting space doesn't have comments set up -- so we can all vote on sessions, but not collaborate in building the agendas.
Should we use these forums to organize sessions, or start some new threads at groups.drupal.org - and point to them from the sessions descriptions? Anyone have preferences? Putting discussion in one place per session idea might be good -- because the conversation can continue after drupalcon -- and everyone will know where to go look for the screencasts/presentations.
For the sessions I proposed, I have some ideas of people to invite, and would like to hear if there are other agenda items that the drupal community would like add.
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Good points
I've added a forum for sessions.
Comments on sesssions?
Wouldn't it make more sense to have comments enabled on sessions rather to have to create a separate forum post for it?
If you feel it would clutter up the pages, how about using something like the Talk module (http://drupal.org/project/talk) to move the discussion/comments to a separate page, but still tied to the actual session proposal.
Thanks, and again, great work with the site!
seconding Chris Bryant
When browsing session I find myself really want to make a comment and ask the presenter things like "How is this presentation different from X" or "What if you teamed up with ABC session?" or "Please clarify" but there isn't a way to do this. I know we can do this is the forum but the forum doesn't notify the session owner and there is no method to directly link a forum topic with a session node. So far I've done this once and my process was
1) found the session that I had a question on
2) Went to the forum and started a topic on the session
3) went to the session owner's user page
4) Click on contact and sent the person an email to let them know that I had started a forum topic based on their session
5) had a conversation with them over email
6) never followed up on the website... (which I'm going to do now).
I have to agree that being able to click "provide feedback" or "add a comment" on the session page itself would be extremely helpful. I also agree that its more aesthetically pleasing that they are not there adding to the clutter so a "talk" page might be nice. My guess is that the comments on the session also serve a purpose in demonstrating that this is truly a community ran conference for those uninitiated to the conference format (i.e. they see it and go "OH... that's why this session is here... ok cool" )